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The blade Zigmund tried to stab MacKensie with, snapped in two against the sudden appearance of a stone body.  It took a second for the broken blade to turn to water, reform and turn back to steel, although by this time Zigmund was already moving to try and throw a blade at Adam.  But he didn't get a chance to see if his blade landed because, another was hot on his tail.

[i]Who is this one?  His technique is powerful, polished, ferocious. A tower shield AND claymore? He is no ordinary human.[/i]

After feeling the power increase of the weaklings, Zigmund was no longer toying around and started to warm up.  He was equal, just barely, to Barracker's offensive.  He evaded the claymore, parried where possible, braced and took the shield bash on his shoulder - a price to avoid the shield swipe that might have broken his helmet.

When Zigmund found some space and time, his blades, including the one he'd thrown at Adam, turned to water to flew back to his body.  Then he summoned a large, two-handed bardiche - water upgrade-tranformed into Titanrock(a rare material that rivalled orichalcum.)

[i]I can match him now, he edges me attack-frequency but I edge him in attack-speed.  They found a competent addition in Valhiem.  Power. Experience.[/i]

In one moment, his Titanrock Bardiche- [b]CLASH[/b] -met equally the Orichalcum Claymore, and Zigmund leaned his head right up to Barracker's face.

"Vampire," he assessed.  Then he head-butted Barracker to break their lock.

The final aerial attack from Barracker forced Zigmund to block, bringing him to one knee, holding the claymore from coming down on him.

[u][b]For the next few moments, Zigmund could not move as he held off Barracker's greatsword.  The next attack would automatically land and depending on who and how they took advantage of a free attack, it was a chance to do huge damage.[/b][/u]